1% for you, 11% for them. MP pay rises in charts

MPs have landed a 11% pay rise – that’ll give them an extra £7,600 a year. Generous – given that they have capped public sector pay rises at 1% for the next two years. That means a new nurse will only see a rise of £214 next year, and a teaching assistant will only get an extra £117.

Can’t quite see the increase in a teacher’s salary? It’s 1%. Like it is for all public sector workers.

And public sector workers aren’t very happy about it either. The Royal College of Nurses had this to say: “The Royal College of Nurses warned that the double impact of the current pay freeze alongside rising inflation is seriously affecting the living standards of nurses across the UK.” We hope that MPs are maintaining their living standards comfortably.